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    mm: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC · 62be1511
    Vlastimil Babka authored
    Patch series "more robust PF_MEMALLOC handling"
    
    This series aims to unify the setting and clearing of PF_MEMALLOC, which
    prevents recursive reclaim.  There are some places that clear the flag
    unconditionally from current->flags, which may result in clearing a
    pre-existing flag.  This already resulted in a bug report that Patch 1
    fixes (without the new helpers, to make backporting easier).  Patch 2
    introduces the new helpers, modelled after existing memalloc_noio_* and
    memalloc_nofs_* helpers, and converts mm core to use them.  Patches 3
    and 4 convert non-mm code.
    
    This patch (of 4):
    
    __alloc_pages_direct_compact() sets PF_MEMALLOC to prevent deadlock
    during page migration by lock_page() (see the comment in
    __unmap_and_move()).  Then it unconditionally clears the flag, which can
    clear a pre-existing PF_MEMALLOC flag and result in recursive reclaim.
    This was not a problem until commit a8161d1e ("mm, page_alloc:
    restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath"), because direct
    compation was called only after direct reclaim, which was skipped when
    PF_MEMALLOC flag was set.
    
    Even now it's only a theoretical issue, as the new callsite of
    __alloc_pages_direct_compact() is reached only for costly orders and
    when gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed() is true, which means either
    __GFP_NOMEMALLOC is in gfp_flags or in_interrupt() is true.  There is no
    such known context, but let's play it safe and make
    __alloc_pages_direct_compact() robust for cases where PF_MEMALLOC is
    already set.
    
    Fixes: a8161d1e ("mm, page_alloc: restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405074700.29871-2-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Reported-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarHillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
    Cc: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>
    Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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